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title: Therefore, he sent his warriors home to cultivate their fields and p… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, he sent his warriors home to cultivate their fields and prepare new war material for future conflicts. Who acts: meha. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 146

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Therefore, he sent his warriors home to cultivate their fields and prepare new war material for future conflicts.

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**Who acts:** meha · **What happens:** send, cultivate, prepare · **To what, where:** warriors, fields, new war material

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meha), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:18:146
# text = Therefore, he sent his warriors home to cultivate their fields and prepare new war material for future conflicts.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cultivate	cultivate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	conflicts	conflict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | meha | meha's warriors |  |  |  | home, therefore *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme |
| 2 | **cultivate** | to-infinitive | meha *not said here* | warriors's fields |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Product |
| 3 | **prepare** | infinitive | meha *not said here* | new war material |  |  |  | for future conflicts | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent material=Product for conflict=Beneficiary |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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